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Adobe Muse – End of Life

I just found Adobe Muse and now it is at it’s End of Life. End of Life is a sad phrase in the software world. It basically means the work that everyone, inside and outside the company put into it is going the way of the dinosaurs… They made the announcement at the end of March to Creative Cloud users via email and posted an announcement on their Muse Widgets site.

Adobe Muse is a great program – you can put together a pretty nice website with little to no coding. You can start laying out from scratch or find a template and edit from there. I put together a website for the Mr. in less than eight hours, by finding a template and customizing it to my hearts content.

This is an example from the Muse marketing site:

Adobe Muse Example Screen shot

As you can see, it has all the page layout tools that you would expect to see in any editor from Adobe. If you are capable of custom HTML, there are several plugins or “widgets,” in the Muse parlance, that you can use to get that HTML into the page.

To create the Mr.’s site, I used a template called “Amazon” and fiddled with it, a lot! If you look at the template and then look at his site, you can see the differences.

I don’t know how Adobe makes decisions on their products but they don’t seem to be consistent about what stays around and how long the product stays around. Adobe Spark, as an example, has an iOS app but not an android app. They also release most of their creative apps on iOS instead of both mobile platforms simultaneously (which I find extra annoying as an android user).